Re: help with date formatting
| From: | mnc at stoic dot net | Date: | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:04:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: help with date formatting | ||
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ryan wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to create an events page, where it shows the posted
> events. I enter data using phpmyadmin. Currently, the ouput is like
> this:
>
> 2002-03-06
>
> I'm having trouble with the formatting of the date. I'm using the type
> date with the function now, so it shows the current date when I post an
> event. Here is what I would like:
>
> Wednesday, March 5th, 2002
I'm guessing you're fetching the date out of a MySQL table.
Use strtotime() to convert that into a timestamp, then use date() to
convert that into the format you want. Both are well-documented in the
manual.
miguel